Insert-valve for bottle-necks.



J. J. KIMB.

INSERT VALVE FOR BOTTLE NEGKS. APPLIGATION HLED MAR. 1s, 1913.

1,082, 1 25K Patented Dec. 23, 1913.

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4UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

JOHN J. KIME, OF LAGRANGE, INDIANA.

INSERT-VALVE FOR BOTTLE-NEUES.

Losetas.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN J. Kiran, a citizen of the United States, and a resident ot Lagrange, county of Lagrange, State of lndiana, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Insert-Valves for Bottle-Necks, ot which the following is a speciication.

This invention relates broadly to a valve construction and more specilieally to a valve adapted to be inserted in a neck of a bottle.

The principal object of this invention is to provide a valve of simple cheap construction that is adapted to be inserted within a bottle neck to obstruct the filling ot the bottle after it has once been emptied.

A. further object of this invention is to provide a valve member constructed from tubular material in such manner that the seats for the valve comprise annular spun rings in the tubular member, the valve member being provided with rigid bar coperating with resilient arms to prevent the withdrawal of the valve member after it has once been inserted in the bottle neck.

Another object of this invention is to provide an insert valve member carrying a stopper so constructed as to be capable of being inserted in the bottle neck after the bottle is iilled and to be rigidly and effectually locked in place, thus preventing the withdrawal of the valve member after it is once inserted in the neck of a bottle.

Other and further objects of this invention will in part be obvious and will in part be pointed out in the specification hereinafter following by reference to the accompanying drawings in which like numerals represent like parts throughout the several iigures thereof.

Figure l is a detail sectional view of one form of the invention showing a double ball valve7 the upper valve acting as a barrier to prevent tampering with the lower valve. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a form of the invention showing a single ball valve and illustrating in dotted lines the position of the locking parts when the valve insert member is being introduced into a bottle neck. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail view showing the invention with a single ball valve and a stationary barrier intended to prevent tampering with the valve. Fig. e is a detail View showing a cross section ot the barrier illustrated in F ig. 8. The detail view in F ig. 4e is taken upon the lines ifi-r in Fig. 3 looking in the direction of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 13, 1913.

Patented Dee. 23,1913.

Serial No. 754,038.

arrows. Fig. 5 is a cross section view of the locking bar. This view illust-rates the end of the section taken between the lines l3-B and {lh-C in 3.

In many lines oi2 `fluid merchandise it is desirable to have a. bottle from which the ordinary7 contents may be very easily poured? but which is very difficult, or substantially impossible to refill in any ordinary manner. Many types of valves have been invented to accomplish this purpose. For the purpose of analysis in connection with the present invention, these types el valves may be divided into two classes. Those which require a particular and special form of bottle neck entirely diii'erent from the usual bottle and which are made or formed in connection with the bottle at the time of its manufacture, and a second class conn prising those which are adapted to be inserted in the bottle after it is once made. rlfhe present invention relates to the latter class, namely, a type of valve adapted to be inserted in a bottle neck of substantially ordinary construction after the bottle has been filled. The oevice constituting the present invention carries with it the valve, the ordinary stopper and the parts for locking the member in position in the bottle neck after it is once inserted, thus rendering the operation of introducing this member merely a substitute operation for the operation of corking the ordinary bottle, and this invention has been directed particularly to simplicity and eheapness in cost ot manufacture.

Referring more iiarticularly to the drawings7 and speciiically to Fig. l7 a bottle neck l is intended to represent merely the ordif nary well known type of bottle neck which has been made a suiiieient length to accommodate the insert valve member which comprises a tubular body section 2 upon which are spun an upper annular bead 4l and a lower annular bead 5. These beads are adapted to form seats for valve balls (3 and T respectively. The fall oi' the tubular body section is provided with a plurality ot' indented projections 8 and 9 which limit the movement of thc valve balls when the bottle is tipped to unseat the balls from their position on the annular bead valve seats. Unless the projections S) are provided 'for the valve ball 7, this valve would seat against the lower portion of the upper annular bead il, and it would be diitlicult to pour the contents from the bottle. The upper portion of the tubular body member is spun outwardly to constitute a circular flange 10 which is adapted to lit rather tightly the mouth or chime of the neck 1l, and the upper portion of the tubular body section carries an ordinary stopper cork 12. A suitable gasket let is adapted to lie within the circumferential groove formed in spinning the lower annular bead 5. This gasket etectually prevents the passage of any fluid bet 'een the bottle neck and the tubular member. Attached to the lower end of the tubular member are two spring arms 15 and 1G." The spring arms 15 and 1G are curved in such manner that a portion of these arms substantially conforms to the interior curvature of the bottle where the neck joins the body portion of the bottle. This curvature of the arms causes them to exert a pressure against the bottle to draw the flange 10 tightly against the chime 11 of the bottle neck. This curvature also has a further advantage in that it permits the device to adjust itself to such irregularities in the length of the neck as ordinarily occur in the manufacture of bottles. It the material from which the tubular member is formed is sumciently resilient, it is preferred that these spring arms be formed integral with the body portion, but if circumstances require the tubular body portion to be made of such material as is not sutliciently resilient, then it is desirable that the arms be formed of separate pieces and attached to the body portion. These arms normally exert a pressure against the bottle neck when the device has been inserted therein, thus tending to draw the lange 10 tightly against the chime of the neck.

In order to prevent withdrawal of the valve from the neck, the arm 15 carries a rigid locking bar 17, which is illustrated as being formed by folding the metal over the edges, as is shown in Figs. 2 and 5. rlhis rigid locking bar is adapted to assume the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2 when the tubular valve member is being inserted in the bottle neck, and immediately as the device is completely inserted in the neck the spring arms 15 and 16 diverge permitting the rigid lockmg bar 17 to be snapped into engagement with a stop 18 formed by the end ot the spring arm 16. The stop 1S is formed adjacent a retaining notch 19, with which the locking bar 17 engages it there is any attempt made to withdraw the tubular member from the bottle neck. It will be noted that the locking bar lies at right angles to the axis of the bottle neck, and since the locking bar is a positive rigid bar that assumes this transverse position when the tubular member is inserted in the neck, this bar is a positive absolute barrier preventing removal of the device from the bottle neck.

Referring now more particularly to Figs. 3 and 4, these figures illustrate a type of barrier used in connection with the ball valve to prevent insertion of wires or any such means to disturb the valve whereby it might be possible to refill the bottle by lifting the valve trom the seat. The barrier illustrated comprises a solid cylindrical wall Q0 which is held in position in the tubular body member by means of rings 21 that are spun in the tubular body member. The cylindrical wall 20 is provided with two openings 22 and 24e extending in the direction of the bottle neck. ll'he opening 22 eX tends from the upper surface ot the barrier downwardly almost through the wall. The opening i241 is substantially parallel to the opening 22, but the opening 24 extends upwardly from the under surface nearly through the cylindrical wall. Transverse openings Q5 and QG intersect the openings 22 and 2d respectively, at substantially right angles, intermediate the ends ot the openings in such manner as to leave a pocket eX- tending below the point of intersection. A transverse connector opening 27 intersects the transverse openings 25 and 26 at substantially right angles and intermediate the ends of the said transverse openings.

It will be noted that the openings in the barrier comprise a pair of parallel vertical conduits or openings, intersected by a pair of horizontal or transverse conduits or openings, which in turn are finally connected by a single connecting transverse opening', and all of these openings intersect each other intermediate their ends. The object of this type of intersecting openings is to always present a pocket beneath the point ot intersection so that it an attempt is made to torce a wir@ through the openings the probabilities are that the wire will eX- tend into one ot' the pockets and that it will be finally lodged in such manner that it will be impossible to force the wire any farther.

Having thus described my invention, what l desire to claim is ln a device ot the class described in combination with a bottle neck, a tubular member provided with a flange upon the upper end thereof, a circumferential bead formed on said tubulai1 member, a ball within said tubular member cooperating with said bead to form a valve, a packing ring lying within the groove which said bead forms upon the exterior ot said tubular member, and a barrier above said valve.,

JGHN J. Kili/1E. lVitnesses:

CLrDn H. RnrHnR, MINNIE A. Manns.

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